Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior

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Background In July of 1992, approximately sixty scholars and researchers met for a week at the qFritz Erler Akademieq in Freudenstadt, Germany, to participate in a workshop entitled qCross-National Lon gitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behaviorq. The participants represented 15 nations and 45 universities and research centers. Although longitudinal research in criminology has a long history, this workshop represented the first one in the field of criminology in which it was attempted to get together the main scholars in this field from around the world. The largest group of the workshop represented American scholars (19), a reflection of the fact that longitudi nal research in criminology is predominantly conducted in North America. This volume is the result of the workshop process and in particular of the invitations to participants to prepare pre or conference papers. The chapters in this volume were selected from a larger set of pre- or conference papers. As workshop conveners and volume editors, it falls to us to set some of the context for this enter prise. Longitudinal research in criminology became a major approach after the publication of the land mark study by Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin qDelinquency in a Birth Cohortq in 1972. Around the same time, when Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin started their Philadelphia cohort study, were longi tudinal studies, although different in scope and aim, launched by Shannon in the USA, West in England, Janson in Sweden, and Goppinger in Germany.The dual taxonomy described in this essay argues that this compromise may be
needless. ... (unnecessary) controversy; they may be an inadvertent
consequence of aquot;mixing apples with orangesaquot; when using adolescents as
research samples.

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Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior

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E. Weitekamp, Hans-Jürgen Kerner

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Springer Science & Business Media - 2012-12-06

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